Manager Ozzie Guillen returned to the dugout today and was met by a mob of reporters. My colleague Dave George will have a columnn on Ozzie later.

“Obviously, some people are still going to be upset,” Guillen said.

“I don’t think I’m going to change, but I won’t be talking about things that aren’t my business. I hope this mistake makes me a better person. I know to be careful about what you talk about.”

After the mob left, Ozzie was relieved when he had beat writers alone to talk about baseball.
Slugger Giancarlo Stanton (.229 with no homers) has been dropped to sixth in the batting order today from his usual clean-up spot.

Logan Morrison is batting fourth and Omar Infante fifth.

“I moved Stanton just to make him relax a little bit and take advantage of LoMo they way he is swinging the bat right now,” Guillen said.

“Hopefully pretty soon we’ll move those guys back to where they should be.”

Last year, Stanton hit his first home run in his 14th game.

On watching the Marlins on TV during his suspension:
“Very painful. Even the ones we win. There’s nothing worse than watching baseball from the couch when you’re supposed to be on the field and you’re next to your wife (instead) of the coaches.”

On Marlins’ defense:
“We played very bad one inning. We’re going to be better. We have to be better if we want to win, we have to polish. We’re going to make mistakes.”

On lack of home runs so far at Marlins Park:
“We cannot sit here and worry about how this ballpark is going to play. Just play the way the ballpark is going to play. If there’s not going to be more home runs, we’ll steal more bases, we’ll use the gaps and pitch better…

“If you hit the ball hard and you think the ball is going (out) and it’s not, get it next time. I don’t want players to sit around like, ‘Wow, I crushed that ball and it didn’t go anywhere.”’

On bench coach Joey Cora’s managing some day:
“Surprises me he’s not there. Very surprised. I hope he’s not a big leage maanger for the next four years. Because I want him and we need him.

“I never denied how much I want Joey Cora to be a manager. You know when you have a kid and he graduates from college and you feel proud of that? That’s going to be one of my most proud days, when I see my best friend have his goal.”